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...FIVE-DAY LOVER. The year's funniest import, a gay Gallic comedy of promiscuities in which Director Philipe de Broca, with the inspired collaboration of Comedian Jean-Pierre Cassel (The Love Game), assembles charming wisps of humor, twists them into a pretty little cord -and strangles every libertin (and libertine) in Paris...
...Five-Day Lover. France's Philippe (The Lore Game) de Broca has produced a minor comic mattresspiece in which hero (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and heroine (Jean Seberg) tear up the sheets with hilarious abandon; but then at the last minute, the director figuratively draws the sheets over the lovers' faces-the contemporary bedroom, he seems to be saying, is a morgue...
...Five-Day Lover. France's Philippe de Broca (The Love Game) has produced a minor comic mattresspiece in which hero (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and heroine (Jean Seberg) tear up the sheets with hilarious abandon; but then at the last minute, the director figuratively draws the sheets over the lovers' faces-the contemporary bedroom, he seems to be saying, is a morgue...
...picture starts out as a naughty, nutty boudoir farce. The lover it celebrates (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a gay young gigolo whose rich mistress (Micheline Presle) keeps him comfortable but also keeps him busy. Even so, the lover has enough libido left for a chic chick (Jean Seberg), and for several reels the tandem romance rackets merrily along. Neither mistress knows he has the other; he on the other hand is blithely unaware that both attend the same hen parties...
...ardors of the nymph at 40. Actress Seberg achieves exactly the right matte shade of skin, the look of slightly tainted meat that suggests and ever so slightly caricatures the girl who sleeps around. Actor Perier interprets to absurd perfection the sort of paterfamiliarity that breeds contempt. And Actor Cassel flutters across the screen with the abandon of a butterfly that, without hope of heaven, can at best expect to spend eternity in a cocktail tray...